What is Reddit's opinion of FLIR ONE Thermal Imager for Android?

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to be clear, police use a less advanced version of it that cannot track targets. The military has such things like predator drones that can find ground targets. But this is a specialized piece of equipment to find air targets. If the one on the police helicopter can do the same thing then why wouldn't they just use that?

here is a FLIR imager you can get off of amazon. Would you agree that this has the same capabilities as the FLIR camera on a SAM site?

As I have said, using the SAM is very likely overkill. But the technology that goes along with it that has the purpose of finding and tracking air targets means someone thought it was worth using. To be more specific. A normal FLIR camera does not track movements. A normal FLIR camera can not find a jet or a drone miles away and notify the user that there is a jet or drone miles away. A normal FLIR camera will not also track a specific jet or drone.

Again as I have said the purpose of these SAMs are to find, track, destroy air targets. they are stationary(ish, they are set on jeeps). They aren't recon devices. The recon FLIR cameras are set on drones. There are unarmed drones that they use, but those drones are likely able to be refitted to hold weapons.

Amazon has some cheap models for $250.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00W5PRY52/

Compared to the cost of a missile, I don't think it's that bad.

You can add this function to your current phone, but its going to cost you about 300 bucks

FYI, if what you care about is FLIR there are other options like the FLIR ONE and the Seek, both of which attach to your Android phone and give you thermal imaging. The CAT phone looked cool, but the 720p screen and likely lack of updates would be deal breakers for me. There are also other ruggedized phones out there.